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Think he's Board
- Thread starter wycherley
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diamondlil
Mice! They taste so nice!
More hides, silk greenery (Wilkos sells great stuff) for him to climb on? Snakes aren't really that active most of the time though, they like to eat things, digest..........and that's about it really!
bitsy
Owned by Corns since 1991
No, they don't get bored. Snakes are cold-blooded animals and energy is very precious. They'll move to find the right temperature, food, water, a mate or sometimes (in captivity) an escape route, but anything else would be a waste of energy.
However, there's nothing to say that you shouldn't add more hides, some climbing branches or plastic foliage. It might give him more exercise and feel more secure as he moves around the tank.
However, there's nothing to say that you shouldn't add more hides, some climbing branches or plastic foliage. It might give him more exercise and feel more secure as he moves around the tank.
Stars
Moonstruck
Exercise is good for them, but as bitsy said, they won't get bored. Their favorite thing to do is hide. There's no such thing as a lower thinking animal that can get bored. In case you didn't know, 99% of lifeforms only care about survival, you need to be super-intelligent to have the potential to get 'bored'. I can only think of 5-10 life forms on the planet that can get bored.
Shiari
Blutterer
Let's see... cats, dogs, apes, monkeys, all species of parrot, parakeets, cetaceans, rodents, lagomorphs, corvids, elephants....and that's from 20 seconds thinking. All of those can get bored. Sorry Stars, that's waaaaay more than just 10.
However, no, I don't really think snakes get bored. They work on a much higher level of instinct than most mammals and birds do.
However, no, I don't really think snakes get bored. They work on a much higher level of instinct than most mammals and birds do.
Stars
Moonstruck
That depends how you define 'bored'. Bored in even close to the way humans feel it, only a few of those animals can feel - namely dogs, apes, dolphins, pigs. And even then, only apes can feel it the way humans do.
Bored as in uninterested in their activities, many animals can feel. But human boredom involves this + discontent.
Shiari
Blutterer
Birds feather pick when bored. It makes them neurotic just like with humans confined with nothing to do. Large cats pace when bored. Also neurotic boredom behaviours. Horses confined to stalls all day will lick the walls/chew on the doors. Again, neurotic boredom behaviours. Rodents also exhibit neurotic boredom behaviours such as over grooming. Elephants rock from side to side for hours as a neurotic boredom induced behaviour.
Stars
Moonstruck
Boredom is a complex emotion. Although these animals will do things because of lack of mental stimulation, is it really associated with frustration? Most researchers don't think so, and neither do I.
Shiari
Blutterer
How can pacing, feather picking, swaying, etc not be fustration? Animals are perfectly capable of feeling that. Listen to a cat chitter at a bird outside a window. Experience redirected aggression. Frustration related to boredom leads to nonproductive, repetitive behaviours.
Also note that researchers once thought animals had no emotions at all. They thought that they didn't feel pain. And that wasn't all that long ago. If they can feel stress, pain, affection, fear, anger... why is boredom so far fetched? Emotions in mammals and birds are a sliding continuum, not "only these certain ones feel it" as being evidenced by more research showing that "such and such an animal can feel such and such an emotion!"
Also note that researchers once thought animals had no emotions at all. They thought that they didn't feel pain. And that wasn't all that long ago. If they can feel stress, pain, affection, fear, anger... why is boredom so far fetched? Emotions in mammals and birds are a sliding continuum, not "only these certain ones feel it" as being evidenced by more research showing that "such and such an animal can feel such and such an emotion!"
kpkp123
New member
I dont know about other animals. but I do not believe that snakes can become bored. Mine dont ever seem to be bored. They mostly just sit in their hides and very rarely come out to cruise. I dont think they feel much except fear, hunger, and maybe a bit "sexy" once in a while. No way to prove it, just my theory.